The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-31
Pith and Point.

not directly unfit q man for working for a
living.-NeW Orleans Ptcoyune.
THE total production of coffee in the
world is about 100000 tons, of which Brazil
alone produces about $4,000 tons.
AN Illinois farmer plants asunhower stalk
in every hill of beans, and thus astonishes
his neighbors by not having to buy poles.
THERE are $50 female physicians in New
York, while more than double the number
are to be found in Brooklyn and other adj
iacent cities.
A WRITER on political economy says: "It's
the little leaks that tell" Yes, indeed; a
little leek will give you away as fast as an
overgrown onion.
CHATHAM COUNTY, s. c., boasts of a mule
that has reached the venerable age of fifty
seven years. He Is said to move with " the
utmost deliberation."
HERE'S another mystery: A map of the
world of 1929, before Hendrick Hudson was
born, shows the river which Hudson is gen.
orally believed to have discovered.
Two young electricians of Munich named
Mestern and Helidober, have invented
sort of telephone which fixes the spoken
word on a chemically prepared sheet Of
paper.
FROM two to four million dollars worth of
gold Is used annually in the shape Of foil for
gliding, lettering, edging of books sign and
ornamental painting and dentistry, gliding
taking the greatest share.
OUT in Nebraska a man invented new
hy-trap-a blanket saturated with coal oil
which he hung up in his house and burned
after it was full of flies. Now he's trying to
find the house.-B,Bdio ErDreSs
II is solemnly asserted that Renova, Pa,
contains cow which can remove the bars
from fence, enter an enclosed lot, and then
replace the bars when she goes out The
COW is said to do this every night.
OWING to the persistent call for " white
meat, please at the summer resorts a
Down East farmer is practicing on his
chickens, in hopes of inventing breed of
fowls that are double-breasted in the back.
VISITOR to " boodler in penitentiary:
" You realize now, my friend, what it is to
have gone wrong?" Boodler (bitterly): 1
do, indeed sir. should have gone to Canada
Then would have gone right. - Baltimore
Herdid.
Jeremiah, did you bring that hunk of
oleomargarine from town with your" in
quired Farmer Goshen. " Yes, father"
Well, jis' drop it into the churn and call
out the summer boarders. - Worcester
Gazette.
A POSSIBLE tenant inspects cottage to
rent and inquiries about the quality of the
air. " The airn' cries the landlord, " the
air is wonderful. One becomes a centena-
rian quicker here than anywhere else.'-
French F1tn.
~ FARMER WHO HAS KNOWN OF twenty
eight forest trees being struck by lightning
says that nine were oaks, seven poplars,
four naples, three willows, and the others
were a chestnut, horse chestnut, walnut
hawthorn and elm.
The usual summer romance is on its
travels. This time it is about a scrub girl
on Mt Washington who was for ten wears
teacher in New England public schools,
and who now makes Greek and Latin books
her constant companions.
A Boston stationer's store was entered
by thieves the other day, who helped them
selves to 500 worth of stylographic pens.
There is one consolation-the aforesaid
thieves will certainly die of vexation when
they try to make the things work.
"MIssUs Finn, I heard that your son
Carnalius Stanley had lost his job" "Not
at all, Missus CAVITY. Sure he has an ILL
CANT job; he's telegraph operator and does
be goin' about diggin' phost-holes for the
Western Union. -Harrisburg star.
"a DICTIONARY of the Welsh Language"
by Rev. ID. S. Evans, is to be issued in parts.
1t is estimated that the jaws of not less
than fifty proof-readers will be irreparably
damaged before the work is completed.
This will make it come high.-NorristOUn
Herdld.
THE Cherokee Nation has just closed an
exciting presidential campaign, in which
Mr.. Bushyhead beat Mr. Bunch Rabbit We
have never met the defeated candidate, but
we know his brother Jack in this state, who
can outrun all the Bushyheads that ever
snubbed comb.-Ahd Californian.
THE pop-weed is Dakota curiosity. Its
stalk is like that of cabbage, with a large
round top, the size and color of a Hubbard
| squash The % northweSterS in the fall
blow the pop-balls off the stalks and roll
them for miles over the praries till they reach
uneven country, when they pile up like
snow banks and serve buffalo herds as a
| shelter from the winter billiards.. \ pop-ball
! which meets any hard object explodes with a
tremendous report and sends about thou
| sands of fine, needle-like seeds in every di-
! rection.
AN Albany newspaper says that there are
| families in that town who have got the art
of keeping up appearances reduced to sci
/ ence. When they want to make their neigh
| bors think they have gone into the country
| they are not content with the old plan of
shutting the front blinds and living in the
| back of the house. They leave their news
papers on the front piazza, apparently neg
| lected, but they take them in at night and
read Them at the same time supplying the
piazza with old papers Tor the next days
| masquerade.
IT is great advantage during the hot
weather to have plenty of ice, provided it is
rightly used. On no account should ice be
put in water for drinking. 1t is far better,
though slower process, to cool water by
! pldclIp III Ill Il refrigerator OF OtueTNlSt sur
rounding it with ice Clear as ice looks, it
almost always contains some impurities,
and these are often causes of disease when
it is dissolved in liquids to be drank. The
refreshing GOODNESS desired may be better
obtained by contact of the vessel containing
water with ice, or leaving it for few hours
in the ice-house or ice-chest.- boston Cultj-
| CdtOr.
A DELAwARIAN moved to Ohio and was
elected to the legislature there. a bill rela-
tive to the penitentiary being before the
house, he took occasion to compare the
penal system of his former state to that of
his adopted one, giving preference TO the
order of things to which he had formerly
been accustomed. Among his arguments
in favor of the whipping-post he said that
the same culprits were seldom whipped
second time, the disgrace of the punishment
causing them to leave the state and begin
life anew elsewhere. At this point of the
new members speech voice from the OPP
posite side of the chamber called out, " Is
that the reason why we have the gentleman
from Delaware among s?'-Hdrper's Ndgd-
| zine.
HENRY SIMPSON of Henderson, KY, was
in the habit of using dynamite for the pur-
pose of blowing old tree-stumps out of the
ground. The other day he carelessly left
the dangerous compound lying by the side
of stump. The dynamite was mixed with
sawdust and gave an exceedingly pleasant
odor, which attracted the attention OF two of
! SIMPSONS hogs. They finished their inspec-
,..ft hoo ruff laxsA cot hAn